Keep a close watch, if the politicians try to use it as an excuse to invade Syria, you will know it was a planned attack by the rebels. Assad would have had nothing to gain and everything to lose by it.

Very sad photos. Centuries of conflict have produced people willing to unleash all kinds of evil on one another. It seems to be ingrained in their DNA. I hope we can stay out of it- although I wouldn't object to limited humanitarian aid to the victims of this atrocity.

I think we will eventually get sucked into the whole mess. The world has shrunk to such an extent that it becomes impossible to keep a conflict localized.

Pretty convincing pictures. Dead children with no signs of external injury.

Obama made a mistake with the "red line." Even if it's been crossed, we can't afford to get into any more Middle East s***.

Yes, cyanotic corpses without any sign of external or internal trauma would certainly appear to be there result of nerve gas, but without autopsies and tests for nerve agents, those pictures do not constitute proof in and of themselves. There is another way those dead people could have ended up the way they did, and that is blast injury. The shockwave alone from an explosion can rupture internal organs and blood vessels, killing people and leaving them lying like manequins without even a mark. The shockwave from a large bomb or shell can kill people in the open hundreds of yards away, without so much as a mark, or it would both throw them against something and rupture their organs at the same time. Such deaths have occurred in WW-I, WW-II and in other wars. Nerve gas like all other chemical weapons are not very controllable, and can easily blow back towards the troops who fired them. They can not only deny an area to an enemy, but fighting in MOPP gear also slows down the attacking force too, since they have to fight in protective suits that restricit movement, vision, hearing and endurance in a country where the climate is HOT. I cannot imagine any government using them knowing innocent people are in the area and staying in power for long, even Assad knows what the fallout would be for doing it. No, if chemical weapons really have been used, I think the "rebels" used chemical weapons furnished by Israel, the U.S., or even Saudia Arabia. Other Muslim nations would like nothing better to overthrow Assad, and turn Syria into an Al Qaeda stronghold.

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An analyst says Israel’s attempt to provoke the international community against the Syrian government following a recent alleged chemical attack in Damascus suggests Tel Aviv’s involvement in the massacre.

The Israeli minister for military affairs, “Moshe Yaalon's clumsy attempt to steer the world's reaction to the Syrian chemical weapons massacre suggests that the attack was yet another Israeli false-flag operation,” Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist, wrote in an article published on Press TV’s website on Thursday.

Just hours after reports on 1,300 deaths in a chemical attack in the suburbs of Damascus on Wednesday, Yaalon accused the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad of repeated use of chemical weapons against foreign-backed militants.

The Syrian Army has vehemently rejected allegations that it used chemical weapons, saying the accusations were fabricated to distract a visiting team of the UN chemical weapons experts and to cover up militants' losses.

Yaalon also described the Syria crisis as a bottomless struggle between a ruling Alawite minority and a disparate Sunni opposition including Muslim Brotherhood members and al-Qaeda affiliates, which would result in the "implosion" of Syria into Sunni-, Shia- and Kurdish-dominated parts.

Barrett, however, said the remarks did not offer an analysis of the situation in Syria but were “a program of action.”

“In fact, they will do whatever it takes to keep the fighting going, including launching false-flag attacks like the recent chemical weapons massacre. Israel's goal, as Yaalon admits, is the destruction of Syria,” the expert stated.

“The Israelis and their American proxies have already smashed Iraq, Libya, and Sudan into pieces,” he explained, as part of Tel Aviv’s plan to break up neighboring Middle Eastern countries into "tiny ethnic and sectarian Bantustans."

“Now they are targeting Syria and Egypt -- two countries whose land they plan to steal to create a ‘Greater Israel’ stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates,” he added.

The analyst said the recent release of Egypt’s criminal ex-dictator, Hosni Mubarak, from jail was also a calculated Zionist project to outrage the Egyptian masses, and thus accelerate the ongoing massacre of Egyptians by the army.